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UCLA to test drugs for autism in weeks not years
In an effort to find a treatment for autism, scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles, are leading a $9 million experiment that aims to evaluate the effectiveness of drugs within weeks rather than years. It's part of a push by the National Institutes of Health to fast-track the ...
Jason Segel working on middle-grade book series
Jason Segel is becoming an author. The star of the TV series "How I Met Your Mother" and "Freaks and Geeks" has a deal with Random House Children's Books for a middle-grade series set in a haunted town. The series is called "Nightmares!" and will debut in the fall of ...
Award-winning children's author Konigsburg dies
E.L. Konigsburg, an author who twice won one of the top honors for children's literature, has died. She was 83. Her son Paul Konigsburg says the longtime Florida resident died Friday at a hospital in Falls Church, Va., where she'd been living for the past few years with another son. ...
Award-winning children's author Konigsburg dies
E.L. Konigsburg, an award-winning author and illustrator of children's books, has died. She was 83. Her son Paul Konigsburg says the author died Friday at a hospital in Falls Church, Va. She had suffered a stroke a week before she died. She won the John Newbery Medal in 1997 for ...
From Rockies to Rust Belt, storm brings extremes
A powerful spring storm system stretching from southern Texas to northern Michigan unleashed a wave of weather extremes on the Midwest on Thursday and threatened to bring its mix of hard rains, high winds and severe thunderstorms to the East by the weekend. The massive system was wreaking havoc from ...
International Women's Day 2012
Women mark International Women's Day with events in the United States and around the world.
First lady celebrates 'Let's Move' with kids
First lady Michelle Obama dances with Iowa school kids while celebrating the second anniversary of the "Let's Move" campaign.
One of world's smallest surviving babies goes home
The smallest baby ever born in California went home Friday, four and a half months after her birth.
Celebs who write for kids
Jill Biden, wife of Vice Pres. Joe Biden, has just published a children's book. Some of the other celebs who have written for kids may surprise you.
British twins born 5 years apart
Meet Reuben Blake, 5, and his baby twin brother.
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